Product Owner - Global Tax and Localization

 

Apex Systems has a new role available as a Product Owner with one of our large sportswear clients based in Beaverton, OR. Prefer a candidate with good understanding/familiarity with financial systems and processes (Accounting and Tax) OneSource and AWS technology. Details below, if you are interested, please apply or send your resume to Halle at hshumaker@apexsystems.com.

Product Owner – Global Tax and Localization

Contract Role

Beaverton, OR

Technology designs, creates and implements the methods and tools needed to make the world’s largest sports brand run faster, smarter and more securely. Global Technology teams aggressively innovate the solutions needed to help employees navigate a rapidly evolving landscape. From infrastructure to security and supply chain operations, Technology specialists drive growth through top-flight hardware, software and enterprise applications. Simply put, without Technology, there are no products.

The Global Tax and Localization Product team needs a strong Product Owner with experience working in an agile environment, who will represent the voice of both the customer and Product Management vision to the teams. As a Product Owner you will be working closely with Product Management, stakeholders, engineers and architects in collaboration to define and prioritize features and stories to ensure alignment with customer and program needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with, interpret and act as the voice of the customer for a single team
• Work with Product Management to define the product, ensure it is integrated into the Program and communicate the vision to the Agile Team
• Contribute to the Product Roadmap, highlight risks and dependencies
• Own, maintain and prioritize their team's product backlog; facilitate feature mapping, break features into stories, define acceptance criteria, ensure capacity for enablers and defects
• Ensure team has the full context and understanding of customers and business environment to create valuable solutions
• Ensure the readiness of the work, accept or reject work results, and that the work is aligned to the Product Roadmap
• Prioritize and make trade-offs based on understanding of strategies, budget, epics, enabler requirements, defects, dependent teams, goals and the value features and stories bring to customers and the business
• Assist in removing roadblocks for the Agile Team
• Be the final decision maker for prioritization of the team's work
• Work with the Agile team to ensure all stories are supported, clear, and delivered in high quality
• Understand how features are performing, the level of customer satisfaction, and provide suggestions for improvements

Skills

• In-depth understanding of the Agile principles and methodologies and how they are applied in the workplace
• Able to solve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions
• Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others
• Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the ecosystem the team works in to help team in overcoming roadblocks
• Experience collaborating and managing relationships with business partners
• Effective team dynamics, conflict resolution, mentoring, and servant leadership skills
• Strong facilitation skills within teams
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally
• Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management
• Able to lead cross-functional work
• Able to respond to and prioritize changing demands
• Strong understanding of Product subject matter

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relative work experience with Bachelor's degree
• Experience working with Agile teams
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with management, technical peers, and business stakeholders
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, VersionOne, Jira or Aha preferred
• Good understanding/familiarity with financial systems and processes (Accounting and Tax) OneSource and AWS technology.
• Familiarity or experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.

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Seniority Level

Director

Industry

• Information Technology & Services 
 
• Computer Software 
 
• Financial Services

Employment Type

Contract

Job Functions

• Engineering 
 
• Information Technology